RYANAIR is to base an extra aircraft at Shannon Airport resulting in thirty extra jobs with two new routes added to its winter schedule at the International Airport.
A total of 18 routes form Ryanair’s winter schedule at Shannon Airport with new routes to Faro and Liverpool while capacity will increase on services to Alicante, Krakow, Lanzarote, Malaga, Tenerife and Wroclaw.
Adding a further boost is the decision of the airline to base one new Gamechanger aircraft in Shannon which will result in an additional thirty jobs. Ryanair now has a fleet of three aircraft in Shannon which supports over 1,000 local jobs. The new aircraft made by Boeing will reduce CO2 emissions by 16 percent, noise emissions by 40 percent and carry 4 percent more passengers with capacity for a total of 197 persons on board.
In its thirty five year history at Shannon, Ryanair has carried 18m passengers. The development of its maintenance facility, a €10m investment created 200 high-skilled jobs in Shannon.
Speaking in Shannon, Ryanair’s Director of Digital and Marketing, Dara Brady said it was “a very important day”. He was confident that by the end of 2023, Ryanair will have had 1.4m passengers in Shannon Airport this year and labelled it as “one of the fastest growing airports for us”.
Securing extra aircraft and employment in the region was “a huge boost,” Dara stated. “We’re the number one carrier in Shannon and we hope to continue to grow here”.
CEO of the Shannon Airport Group, Mary Considine described Ryanair as “a really important airline for Shannon” and she said the success of both partnerships was evident with the full car park outside the Airport.
